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SUMMARY:DC & The Love
DESCRIPTION:A Chicago-based band led by songwriter and legendary bass player Dennis Carroll\, DC & The Love brings together a group of premier musicians celebrated for their superb musicianship and originality. Featuring Dennis Carroll’s genre-defying music\, ear-catching melodies and poignant lyrics\, DC & The Love has evolved into one of the most exciting and cutting-edge bands in the country\, headlining last summer’s Chicago Jazz Fest\, San Francisco’s Black Cat\, and the Rootabaga Jazz Festival\, all while recording their first EP titled “Go Up.” It’s music. It’s love. DC & The Love. “Let me first say – I listened to every single act at the Chicago Jazz Fest this year\, and your set was the highlight!” – Andy Crawford\, Director\, Rootabaga Jazz Festival
URL:https://midwestartsxpo.org/event/dc-the-love/
LOCATION:Baird Center North – Baird Ballroom C – 4th floor
CATEGORIES:Dance
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SUMMARY:Will Holiday's The Grand Ol' Christmas Show
DESCRIPTION:Don’t settle for mediocre Holiday entertainment\, set your dial to 1225 AM for the “progressively nostalgic” programming of The Grand Ol’ Christmas Show! The last great musical variety retro radio show\, broadcasting live from the N-O-E-L Radio Studios. This original show is packed with the spirit of Christmas’ past\, present\, and future and will knock the Dickens out of your inner Ebenezer. Yule laugh\, Yule cry\, and Yule-tide with this GRAND show and its impressive cast of 17 stellar musicians\, singers\, and entertainers. Featuring four charismatic stars to guide you through a festive evening of incredible musical arrangements and original songs\, storytelling\, zany holiday hijinx\, and your all-time favorite Christmas classics brought to life by a live on-stage Radio DJ\, foley artists\, original sketch comedy\, the divine harmonies of the N-O-E-L Gospel Singers\, and the big big sounds of a 10-piece Radio Orchestra! Don’t touch that dial….
URL:https://midwestartsxpo.org/event/will-holidays-the-grand-ol-christmas-show-2/
LOCATION:Baird Center North – Baird Ballroom C – 4th floor
CATEGORIES:Dance
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SUMMARY:Chicago Tap Theatre "Unleash the Beats"
DESCRIPTION:Chicago Tap Theatre performs exclusively with live music provided by some of Chicago’s finest musicians playing everything from Duke Ellington to David Bowie\, and many artists in between. Chicago Tap Theatre is a vibrant dance company with a unique mission to preserve the quintessentially American dance form of tap and to take tap to the next level of creativity and innovation. “Unleash the Beats” is a celebration of tap dance and live music from the 1920’s to the future.
URL:https://midwestartsxpo.org/event/chicago-tap-theatre-unleash-the-beats/
LOCATION:Baird Center North – Baird Ballroom E – 4th floor
CATEGORIES:Dance
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SUMMARY:Black Label Movement
DESCRIPTION:Black Label Movement invites you into an evening of uncompromising physicality and vivid storytelling.This showcase features a stirring excerpt from Rules of Life\, a boundary-blurring world premiere coming January 2026 where choreography collides with glioblastoma cancer research—crafting a visceral exploration of biology\, human connection\, and the very rules that govern life itself. Paired with Carl Flink’s Duet for Wreck—a deceptively simple duet played out on two benches\, revealing a once-intimate relationship fraying at its edges\, teetering between resolution and resignation—this performance distills the profoundly physical\, socially critical work that defines Black Label. Known for daring collaborations\, relentless physicality\, emotional guts\, and radical ideas embodied through movement\, Black Label Movement invites you into a moment of urgent\, embodied inquiry. Experience the kind of dance theater that challenges everything—and never lets you look away.
URL:https://midwestartsxpo.org/event/black-label-movement/
LOCATION:Baird Center North – Baird Ballroom E – 4th floor
CATEGORIES:Dance
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